Re: enabling built in firewall on XP

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/19/03 

Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:34:22 -0600

Greetings --

   You'll either need to find a 3rd party firewall that is compatible
with AOL, or switch to a real ISP that is compatible with the real
Internet..

    AOL is an on-line content provider that ignores international
Internetworking standards in favor of its own proprietary products,
and has deliberately made its connection software incompatible with
both WinXP's built-in firewall and WinXP's Internet Connection Sharing
feature. AOL's proprietary connection applet is deliberately designed
to preclude your setting/adjusting any of its properties, to include
enabling/disabling WinXP's ICF and ICS.

Bruce Chambers 

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"n wicker" <jessie7770@aol.com> wrote in message
news:005a01c365a6$e947a8f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I, too am trying (so far unsuccessfully) to get firewall
> established so I can install blaster patch.  I have 5-
> month old Dell running XP Pro and use AOL for one of my
> ISPs.  When I followed the MS instructions for activating
> the firewall (see blaster action pages) and tried to
> click on AOL's properties nothing happens i.e. no modem
> info screen appears as it does with my other ISP's.  I
> queried AOL LIVE HELP and they told me that AOL disables
> that screen, leaving no way to follow MS instructions to
> install the patch.  This sounds NUTS to me: millions of
> AOL users and no way to install the available patch????
> Does anybody have a suggestion?  BTW I use Norton anti-
> virus and was able to install firewall on both of my
> modems  by clicking on them (they are other ISPSs) per MS
> instructions.  Have I sucessfully installed a firewall and
> would it be safe to go on and complete steps 2-4 for the
> blaster patch.  Or am I stuck?  Thanks for any help!
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a brand new computer with xp installed.  I will be
> >using it both with a dial-up AND with a hi speed cable
> >connection.  Does it matter which one i use when enabling
> >the firewall.  Will enabling from one work with the other?
> >.
> >

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